Parallelism in Imam Shafii Poetry

Abstract

Poetry, an organism, derives its flavor from the cultural environments.

Neither the old poetry is damaged nor the new one is erased by death because

poetry is the speech spirit, the self talk, the pulse of thought, and the purity

of the language. Poetry does not differ from the components of this universe

where things are similar and different.

If parallelism as a term has emerged recently by Roman Aakpson,

the Arabic rhetoric has known a lot of terms that reflect the essence of

parallelism. The Arabic poetry never left parallelism and its forms, but it

varied in existence through the ages. This research seeks to determine the

manifestations of parallelism in the poetry of Imam Shafei, and how to

organize the text components (both acoustic and synthetic components) .

Parallelism is both constitutive and organizational; it regulates the

relations of vocabulary and structures, and it transmits the text from serenity

to motion. So, the researcher divided this research into four main sections, and

an introduction: which introduces Imam shafei and the concept of parallelism

and its relationship with the Arabic rhetoric. The first section handles the

acoustic parallelism; the second section: the morphological parallelism, the

third section: the lexical parallelism; and the final section, is concerned with

grammatical parallelism (synthetic) and its impact on the cohesion of the

text. The researcher was keen in all categories on highlighting the impact of

parallelism on indication and rhythm.